Current Trends

The hotel industry is diverse for individuals to work in the different components and field of interest employed in the accommodation industry. The trend of hospitality and tourism is global. It tackled the current trends and issues of hotel industries with regard to lifestyles, brand, food supply chain, technology and rules and regulations so with challenges and problems. It ascertained the significant difference of the based on the assessments of the three groups of respondents. The study focused on the profile of the hotel relative to forms of business organization, classification, years in business and number of employees. The study is quantitative in nature utilizing descriptive method and purposive sampling to its 210 respondents such as tourists, hotel owners and employees in CALABARZON region using validated questionnaire dealt with Cronbach's Alpha. It observed the ethical consideration and statistical treatment of data using frequency, percentage, weighted mean, ranking and F-Test. Results revealed that the profile of hotels varies where its current trends were sharply observed as growing and competitive, and there is a great extent of existence of challenges and problems in the hotel industry. There is a significant difference in the current trends and challenges when group according to profile. The proposed input to tourism development planning may be helpful to the industry.

Crowdsourcing is rapidly evolving and applied in situations where ideas, labour, opinion or expertise of large groups of people are used. Crowdsourcing is now used in various policy-making initiatives; however, this use has usually focused on open collaboration platforms and specific stages of the policy process, such as agenda-setting and policy evaluations. Other forms of crowdsourcing have been neglected in policy-making, with a few exceptions. This article examines crowdsourcing as a tool for policy-making, and explores the nuances of the technology and its use and implications for different stages of the policy process. The article addresses questions surrounding the role of crowdsourcing and whether it can be considered as a policy tool or as a technological enabler and investigates the current trends and future directions of crowdsourcing.

The purpose of writing this review on floating drug delivery systems (FDDS) was to compile the recent literature with special focus on the principal mechanism of floatation to achieve gastric retention. The recent developments of FDDS including the physiological and formulation variables affecting gastric retention, approaches to design single-unit and multiple-unit floating systems, and their classification and formulation aspects are covered in detail. This review also summarizes the in vitro techniques, in vivo studies to evaluate the performance and application of floating systems, and applications of these systems. These systems are useful to several problems encountered during the development of a pharmaceutical dosage form.

In recent times due to the Indian economic growth, there is a surge in construction activities. This surge has led to an excess amount of demolition waste that is produced. According to the Building Material Promotion Council, India generates an estimated 150 million tons of C and D waste every year. Some existing initiatives and the significant stakeholders' involvement have created the demolition waste management systems essential in the building's demolition phase. The research in the C and D and Awareness program for C and D waste that initiated has led to the implementation of some waste management systems in the building's demolition phase. In India, the amount of demolition waste produced is higher than the construction waste produced while constructing buildings. So, it is essential for the demolition waste mitigation plan in the building's demolition phase. The study aims to know circular construction and current demolition waste management performance in th...

In recent times due to the Indian economic growth, there is a surge in construction activities. This surge has led to an excess amount of demolition waste that is produced. According to the Building Material Promotion Council, India generates an estimated 150 million tons of C and D waste every year. Some existing initiatives and the significant stakeholders' involvement have created the demolition waste management systems essential in the building's demolition phase. The research in the C and D and Awareness program for C and D waste that initiated has led to the implementation of some waste management systems in the building's demolition phase. In India, the amount of demolition waste produced is higher than the construction waste produced while constructing buildings. So, it is essential for the demolition waste mitigation plan in the building's demolition phase. The study aims to know circular construction and current demolition waste management performance in the Indian construction industry. Through literature review, demolition waste management systems that are carried out all around the world are collected. The current practices carried out by different stakeholders practicing in India are known through a questionnaire survey. Data interpretation is made using the data collected in the literature review and the questionnaire survey. This research identified the significant benefits, barriers, and motivation factors to implement the waste management system, and proposing any necessary changes. Designer innovation and BIM deconstruction is considered as one of the barrier-breaking innovation in adopting the circular construction.

Art. 110. – Et afin qu'il n'y ait casue de douter sur l'intelligence desdits arrêts, nous voulons et ordonnons qu'ils soient faits et écrits si clairement, qu'il n'y ait ni puisse avoir aucune ambiguité ou incertitude ne lieu à demander ... (Ordonnance 188 de 1539 prise par le Roi François ...

In this paper we thoroughly analyze a distributed procedure for the problem of local database update in a network of database peers, useful for data exchange scenarios. The algorithm supports dynamic networks: even if nodes and coordination rules appear or disappear during the computation, the proposed algorithm will eventually terminate with a sound and complete result.

In this paper, we review and discuss a number of age-related changes in cognitive capabilities and their implications on driving performance and safety. Previous research has shown that older drivers can exhibit performance degradation and a reduction in safety margin because of the relative decline in sensory/perceptual, cognitive abilities, as well as the slowing in motor response. We begin by reviewing and evaluating extant theories of cognitive change and the mechanisms that underlie such variation. Then we examine how these changes are manifested and influenced by advancing age. Third, we examine the impact of these age-related cognitive changes on driver performance. Finally, we outline the importance of these findings for intelligent transportation systems design, driver distraction and driver workload, and ultimately transportation safety in an aging society. Key Words: Aging, Driving Performance, Cognitive Capa bilities, Cognitive Changes, Safety, Intelligent Transportation...

Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) techniques are used to accurately measure the distance from ground stations to retroreflectors on satellites and the moon. SLR is one of the fundamental techniques that define the international Terrestrial Reference Frame (iTRF), which is the basis upon which we measure many aspects of global change over space, time, and evolving technology. It is one of the fundamental techniques that define at a level of precision of a few mm the origin and scale of the ITRF. Laser Ranging provides precision orbit determination and instrument calibration/validation for satellite-borne altimeters for the better understanding of sea level change, ocean dynamics, ice budget, and terrestrial topography. Laser ranging is also a tool to study the dynamics of the Moon and fundamental constants. Many of the GNSS satellites now carry retro-reflectors for improved orbit determination, harmonization of reference frames, and in-orbit co-location and system performance validation....

Phenotypic response of the 16 rice genotypes to brown plant hoppers (BPH) was evaluated at flowering stage under field conditions. The results indicated that genotypes were classified into five groups from score 1 to score 9. A total of 88 alleles were detected by 37 ...

Abstract A simple, efficient and rapid procedure for the preparation of various 2-substituted benzoxazoles (3) has been developed. The reaction of o-aminophenol with various substituted aromatic aldehydes proceeds smoothly in the presence of p-toulene sulfonic ...

Typical home comfort systems utilize only rudimentary forms of energy management and conservation. The most sophisticated technology in common use today is an automatic setback thermostat. Tremendous potential remains for improving the efficiency of electric and gas usage. However, home residents who are ignorant of the physics of energy utilization cannot design environmental control strategies, but neither can energy management experts who are ignorant of the behavior patterns of the inhabitants. Adaptive control seems the only alternative. We have begun building an adaptive control system that can infer appropriate rules of operation for home comfort systems based on the lifestyle of the inhabitants and energy conservation goals. Recent research has demonstrated the potential of neural networks for intelligent control. We are constructing a prototype control system in an actual residence using neural network reinforcement learning and prediction techniques. The residence is equip...

Reverse engineering (RE) was invented primarily when the process of software engineering (SE) gained less interest because of difficulty. It was mainly used when software is developed, and the developer is no longer available. Therefore the only communication ...